Soft as Soot Falling
Style: Rain and piano

[Verse 1]
Soot comes tumbling slow past the rusted old grate tonight
Falling so gentle it barely stirs the sleeping air
Everything settles the way that it always made
And you are the softest thing resting anywhere

[Pre-chorus]
Hush now, the whole tired world is turning down its light
Rain on the window is humming us both to sleep
Close your eyes, love, and drift where the dark is kind

[Chorus]
Jade, my love, the night was always yours to keep
Nothing can touch you while the quiet rain has stayed
Sleep now, and know how deeply you are loved, Jade
Even the dark leans soft around you as you sleep

[Verse 2]
Behind the old brick wall the evening folds up small
Nothing to fear where the grate holds back the cold
You are the warmth that never has to shout at all
Safe in the hush that this house has always told

[Pre-chorus]
Hush now, the whole tired world is turning down its light
Rain on the window is humming us both to sleep
Close your eyes, love, and drift where the dark is kind

[Chorus]
Jade, my love, the night was always yours to keep
Nothing can touch you while the quiet rain has stayed
Sleep now, and know how deeply you are loved, Jade
Even the dark leans soft around you as you sleep

[Bridge]
No need to be afraid of shadows on the wall
They are only the night turning gently in its sleep
I will be near however small the hours fall

[Chorus]
Jade, my love, the night was always yours to keep
Nothing can touch you while the quiet rain has stayed
Sleep now, and know how deeply you are loved, Jade
Even the dark leans soft around you as you sleep

[Outro]
Soot still falls slow behind the old red wall
And you sleep on, held safer than it all

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